Winners of 2021 DIH Incubator

Vanguard Medicine Inc. provides a targeted patient care solution, Mindful Care Training, that bridges the gap in medical and nursing training on IPV + family violence. Through the use of this clinical decision support and learning management system we support clinicians on the frontline in real time. We found that physicians and nurses are not provided any training on gender-based intimate partner and family violence during their formal schooling. We fill this gap by providing three pillars of frontline support; 1. build new knowledge, 2. curated relevant resources at their fingertips, and 3. live on-demand peer support. Nothing like this currently exists. We meet the need on-the-ground for clinicians and survivors through a precision care model that increases provider knowledge, reduces ED treatment times, and reduces repeat visits. We are survivors and frontline clinicians, creating solutions for survivors and clinicians. This unique vantage point affords us rich inside knowledge and a deep understanding from both sides that inspires us to continually improve upon our precision care model to ensure we are positively influencing patient/provider engagement and success.

SDoH focus: Intimate Partner Violence

Draw Your Way Through Medicine, is an online digital drawing course for pre medical students, medical students and clinicians. By learning Procreate, an online drawing tool, this course aims to demystify drawing and break down drawing into the fundamentals. The course will allow anyone to digitally draw and communicate complex medical concepts in a simple way! Digital drawing is not bound by many of the limitations of traditional art. Digital drawing tends to be more efficient, forgiving and experimental. In contrast to traditional drawings where mistakes are embraced or covered up, in digital drawing, mistakes are easy to remove with a simple undo button. Most importantly, through tracing, digital drawing allows you to create anatomically correct and proportioned drawings without any prior artist ability. This helps combat the common sentiment among physicians who like to draw for their patients but do have the skill set to do so. Additionally, digital art allows for easy distribution and alterations. This allows physicians to send the drawing home with their patient or upload it to their digital medical record. Like any program or online platform, with the right instruction and practice, everyone will be able to digitally draw and enhance their visual communication skills!

SDoH focus: Health Literacy

Scopic is creating a social determinants of health (SDoH) driven ML tool to make surgery socially responsible. Our platform seamlessly integrates into the EMR system and provides valuable insights about a patient’s SDOH status using machine learning. To improve workflow efficiency and increase reimbursement, our tool automates the preliminary SDoH assessment and bills insurance companies for SDoH problems, potentially reforming hospital payments for surgical patients while reducing clinician workload. Through the utilization of our SDoH data, we hope to gain deep population level insights to better understand the unique social needs of our patients all while improving workflow and increasing reimbursement for our users.

SDoH focus: High impact SDoH domains that affect surgical outcomes

HUED is a healthcare engagement solution tailored to address the needs of Black and Latino communities by providing access to culturally-competent healthcare providers, while simultaneously working to increase the number of culturally-competent healthcare providers through education and training. By reducing barriers that these communities face due to fear, distrust, comfortability and lack of access to quality medical care, HUED seeks to change the lives of 50,000 Black and Latino patients by 2025.

SDoH focus: Implicit Bias

Breaking Through was founded to provide novel educational interventions adapted from behavioral science to facilitate the anti-racist transformation of individuals and teams within healthcare. The Breaking Through educational portfolio is growing to address not only anti-racism outside of healthcare, but other issues of inequity and lack of inclusivity. Already enacted for multiple clinical teams with positive feedback, Breaking Through aims to build an online platform to allow more individuals and teams to start their journey towards equity.

SDoH focus: Racial Bias

The U.S. is currently experiencing a healthcare cost crisis due to a lack of transparency. According to a 2019 Gallup Poll of 3,537 random adults, 47% of Americans never know what a visit to the emergency room will cost before receiving care and another 41% of Americans reported forgoing a visit to the emergency room due to cost over the past 12 months. This cost crisis is especially challenging for minority populations, which have higher rates of delaying or going without medical care due to costs. Our team is trying to solve the issue of price transparency in the United States by creating a searchable database that patients can use to find and compare the costs of medical procedures across many different hospitals, which will allow patients to access quality healthcare at the lowest costs.

SDoH focus: Health Care Access and Quality